Husband Dr. Joseph Long Thistle, M.D. 1 2
Born: 1855 - Sistersville, Tyler Co, WV 2
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Father: Archibald Thistle ( -1896) 2
Mother: [Unk] McCoy ( -1906)
Marriage: 1879 2
Wife Sarah Olivia "Sadie" Bell 1 2
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Father: John E. Bell (1822-1874) 1 3
Mother: Julia A. Winters (Abt 1820-Aft 1893) 1
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1 M Archibald Thistle 2
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2 F Helen S. Thistle 2
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3 F Catherine R. Thistle 2
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4 F Mildred B. Thistle 2
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General Notes: Husband - Dr. Joseph Long Thistle, M.D.
In the fall of 1872 he came from Sistersville, West Virginia, where he was born, to Washington, Pennsylvania, and entered the preparatory department of Washington-Jefferson College, and pursued the regular classical course, intending to be a physician, until impaired health compelled him to leave college shortly before the graduation of his Class of '78. Less than two years after his arrival there he united with the First Presbyterian Church, of which he was ordained a deacon soon after becoming a resident of the town some years later. While in college he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity and of the Philo and Union Literary Society. After leaving college he was employed in surveying and engineering work, and in his father's store, until he entered Jefferson Medical College, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September, 1884, after nearly two years of preparatory study, and received a diploma from this famous institution in 1886, together with a gold medal, awarded in competition, for "the best thesis on a subject relating to obstetrics."
For some years after marriage he and his wife lived at Sistersville, West Virginia. But immediately after completing some post-graduate work, following graduation from medical college, he removed his family to Washington, Pennsylvania, and resided there ever after. This was during the height of the oil excitement there and he soon had a good practice which he continued until in the early eighteen-nineties his father's failing health and added cares on account of oil and gas developments in Tyler County, compelled him to spend about one-half of the time away from home for the next ten years. His father died in 1896, leaving a considerable estate.
In 1893 Washington-Jefferson College conferred upon Dr. Thistle the honorary degree of Master of Arts. He was a director in the Washington Trust Company, and in the Washington Electric Light and Power Company, besides being a stockholder in several other banks and corporations of that and neighboring cities.
General Notes: Wife - Sarah Olivia "Sadie" Bell
After many years of great suffering from asthma, although relief was sought in many parts of the country, she passed to her reward in February, 1906. She was most relieved at Mt. Lake Park, Maryland, and there a comfortable home was established in 1897, where the family spent most of the hottest months for many years.